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The film was directed by Stephen Boyum, a former stuntman who began directing with tv movies like Mom’s Got a Date with a Vampire (2000) and Stepsister from Planet Weird (2000) and went onto make the Hallmark mini-series La Femme Musketeer (2003) and the Patrick Swayze King Solomon’s Mines (2004).
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The science-fiction elements are paid attention to only as much as the story needs them and mostly the film is concerned with the action movie stuff of the hero and villain chasing each other across time. It is clear that Timecop: The Berlin Decision has been construed more as an action film than it has as a science-fiction film. Surely if Miller were preventing them from ever being born, he would simply eliminate them from the timeline altogether, including the memories that everybody else would also have of them? TEC agent Ryan Chan (Jason Scott Lee)Īlthough the film does fail to follow its logic – while the end has Jason Scott Lee changing the past and returning to the present where nobody remembers anything and there is correct reference to how when Miller eliminates agents he would also stop all the criminals they ever arrested from being apprehended, the film illogically has the eliminated agents suddenly disappearing in front of people’s eyes.
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There are some occasionally imaginative touches of time travel logic – like how Jason Scott Lee keeps encountering different versions of Mary Page Keller every time he returns to the present, where she has gone from professional to burned-out punk to having developed an eyepatch and finally having disappeared and become a renegade or the effective ending where the villain gets to offer redemption to his younger self and the tying together of the hero’s past before he returns to the present where nobody remembers anything at all. The rest of the film treads a similar line between promising and unconvincing.
Alas, such a promising idea falls apart due to the casting of an actor who does not in the slightest resemble Adolf Hitler and some unconvincing period sets and costumes. Timecop 2 starts out promisingly with Jason Scott Lee, replacing Van Damme, trying to prevent Thomas Ian Griffith’s bad guy from assassinating Adolf Hitler and preventing the Holocaust from happening. The film had previously been spun out as a short-lived tv series Timecop (1997-8) starring T.W.
It is a surprise that Timecop had not been sequelised before now – The Berlin Decision comes nearly a decade after the original came out – as one has always thought that it had eminent possibilities as both a science-fiction and action movie franchise. And in that spirit, we’d like to take the opportunity to explore some of our favorite under-the-radar time travel movies.The Berlin Decision is a video-released sequel to Timecop (1994), the modestly effective Jean-Claude Van Damme starring sf/action vehicle of a few years earlier.
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Deliberately paced, continually shifting perspectives, and inherently weird, Predestination feels like a movie that the distributor has no idea how to sell, and as a result we’re afraid that this will fall into a category of films that, while excellent, are totally underappreciated. Though the film is being marketed as a time-hopping crime story in the vein of Minority Report and TimeCop, that’s not what you’re going to see. After all, January can be a rough month at the theater, quality wise. While we hope many of you go see it, as it’s totally worth a few hours of your life, we think that a lot of people may sit this one out.
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The Spierig Brothers’ time travel thriller Predestination hits theaters at the end of this week (we’ll have a full review to accompany the release). GIANT FREAKIN ROBOT > Sci-Fi 5 Underappreciated Time Travel Movies To Watch After Predestination
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